That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I’m not really book-smart.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Competition is a sin.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I was an overnight sensation.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.